Allen Gersho

Dr. Gersho is a wireless visioneer with the Digital Media Division of Microsoft Corporation and a research professor at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB).
His research area at UCSB is multimedia signal compression.
He holds patents in various aspects of compression and signal processing.
He is co-author with R.M.
Gray of the book, Vector Quantization and Signal Compression, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992, and co-editor of two books on speech coding.
He served as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society and has been a member of various IEEE technical, editorial, award, and conference management committees.
He received his B.S.
from MIT in 1960 and Ph.D.
from Cornell University in 1963.
He was at Bell Laboratories from 1963 to 1980, and was Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering from 1980 to 1998 and CEO of SignalCom, Inc. from 1996 to 2000.
Prior business experience includes technology licensing and expert witness consulting.
He received NASA "Tech Brief" awards for technical innovation in 1987, 1988, and 1992.
In 1980, he was co-recipient of the Guillemin-Cauer Prize Paper Award from the Circuits and Systems Society.
In 1981, he became a Fellow of the IEEE.
He received the Donald McClennan Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 1983, and in 1984 he was awarded an IEEE Centennial Medal.
In 1992, he was co-recipient of the 1992 Video Technology Transactions Best Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.
In 1999, he was co-recipient of the Ericsson-Nokia Best Paper Award at the IEEE Workshop in Speech Coding.
In 2000, he was awarded an IEEE Third Millennium Medal.